* Mike Flynn, a former three-star general, was Trump’s first national security advisor until he was fired less than a month after the inauguration* He pleaded guilty in a plea bargain cut with prosecutors from the Mueller special counsel probe and is now waiting to be sentenced* But his new defense team are accusing federal prosecutors of ‘egregious misconduct’ claiming Flynn was not given all the facts before making a deal* Among the missing information, they claim, were the notorious anti-Trump texts exchanged by FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok* Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell said the whole prosecution should be dismissed* U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan set a Dec. 18 sentencing date for Flynn* Prosecutors had previously offered a probation recommendation but that now appears to be in jeopardy

A lawyer for Michael Flynn accused federal prosecutors of misconduct on Tuesday as a judge set a December sentencing hearing for President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser.

The arguments from Flynn attorney Sidney Powell were the latest in a series of aggressive attacks on the foundations of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

They represented yet another step in Flynn’s evolution from a model cooperator – he was the first and only White House official to cut a deal with prosecutors – to a defendant whose newly combative and unremorseful stance may cost him a chance at the probation sentence prosecutors had previously recommended.